During my first placement, our students were just finishing up the word, excel, and publisher units. My cooperating teacher and I decided to do a project that would integrate all three. The students were hired for a company where they were basically hired as the office assisant. They were required to keep a time card for their hours of work and their tasks were to create business documents, such as memo's, invitations, letters, emails, flyers, and etc for their boss.
There were two different simulations, one was more challenging then the other; however the students didn't know this. The students who were usually finished with work early and needed challenged were assigned to the harder simulation and the other students were assigned to the other. We assigned students to simulations the class according to their learning styles. They had a list of task that they were to complete and were allowed to go at their own pace.
The project/simulation was really good for the students to put to work what they learned into a real life office procedures job. It was a good way to integrate all the material that was previously learned.
The students really seemed to enjoy this activity and took ownership and pride for their work. I suggest other business students to try this in their classrooms as well!
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This sounds like it worked really well, it is great that you were able to get them involved in something that will help them be better workers in the future!
ReplyDeleteI feel that a hands-on project, like the one you did here, is a nice way to actually visualize what you have learned in a certain area. It always helped me to see the bigger picture.
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